Bradford Batman overwhelmed by response to 'practical joke'

Bradford Batman unmasks himself as a delivery driver and football fan who
drove his friend to the police station dressed as the caped crusader.

10:57AM GMT 05 Mar 2013

In an exclusive TV interview for ITV Daybreak, the would be super hero, real name Stan Worby, explained how the decision to deliver his friend to the police station dressed as Batman was an idea he came up with while watching Bradford City play football at Wembley.

CCTV images of Mr Worby 'delivering' a suspect to Bradford's Trafalgar House police station in the early hours of Monday February 25, prompted international media attention which the 39-year-old delivery driver didn't expect.

"I was gobsmacked. It was a practical joke just between me and my friend. Then I started getting loads of phone calls."

A West Yorkshire Police spokesman said: “Last week we had a very strange occurrence at the police station when a male wanted in relation to an offence on our area was ‘escorted’ into our helpdesk at Trafalgar House by Batman.

“Batman came into the helpdesk, stated to the staff, ‘I’ve caught this one for you’, and then promptly vanished into the night. The whole bizarre incident was captured on CCTV.”